Woman’s degradation is in mans idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTONI think if women would indulge more freely in vituperation, they would enjoy ten times the health they do. It seems to me they are suffering from repression.
More Elizabeth Cady Stanton Quotes
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Truth is the only safe ground to stand on.
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Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving.
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The bible teaches that women brought sin and death into the world. I don’t believe that any man ever talked with god. The bible was written by man out of his love of domination.
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The desire to please those we admire and respect often cripples conscience.
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To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.
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Woman has been the great unpaid laborer of the world.
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When women can support themselves, have entry to all the trades and professions, with a house of their own over their heads and a bank account, they will own their bodies and be dictators in the social realm.
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Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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A government is just only when the whole people share equally in its protection and advantages.
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Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.
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The prolonged slavery of woman is the darkest page in human history.
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Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
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A woman will always be dependent until she holds a purse of her own.
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Social science affirms that a woman’s place in society marks the level of civilization.
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Men think that self-sacrifice is the most charming of all the cardinal virtues for women, and in order to keep it in healthy working order, they make opportunities for its illustration as often as possible.
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